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The chin and throat were still pure white, and an entire change 

 of colour from gray to brown, was necessary to complete the 

 nuptial dress. 



Bearded Tit. — A ie\v were shot, as usual, on the broads, 

 during the sharpest weather, when almost everything else was 

 frozen out. 



Smew. — I never remember a winter in which so many adult male 

 smews have been killed, as will be seen by the following list of 

 specimens sent to our Norwich birdstuffers during the month of 

 January : — On the 14th an adult male was shot near Yarmouth, 

 and another on the 21st. One at Kimberley on the 22ud ; one at 

 Wroxham and one at Yarmouth on the 28lh ; and another, about 

 the same date, making six, was sent up from some other part of the 

 county. A young male, shot in the estuary at Lynn, was sent me 

 on the 9th, by Mr. J. Cresswell, and another was killed about two 

 miles up the river. An adult male was also shot near Lynn about 

 the same time; and a young male, on the 10th, at Blickling, near 

 Aylsham. 



Bittern. — One was shot at Winterton, near Yarmouth, about 

 the 9th ; another near Lynn about the same time, and one on the 

 28th. 



Goosander. — On the 5th two adult males and one female were 

 shot at Hunstanton. About the same time a flock of at least twenty 

 frequented the lake at Gunton Hall, near Cromer, with large 

 numbers of other fowl. On the Uth a party of eleven alighted on 

 Breydon, of which five were shot, but singularly enough all females 

 — not a single male in the flock was hit. An old male was shot at 

 Hickling on the 12th ; one at Yarmouth on the 22nd ; another at 

 Hickling on the 17th; and a young male at Burgh on the 21st; 

 an old male, on the 28lh, at Rockland, and a female at Hickling ; 

 also an adult male at Yarmouth about the same date, and two on 

 the river at Feltwcll. Most of these male birds were in perfect 

 plumage, and the old females were quite as rich in the salmon tint 

 of the breast-feathers when first brought in. 



Purple Sandpiper. — An immature bird, killed either at Blakeney 

 or Salthouse, was sent up to Norwich on the 13th, with one or two 

 sanderlings. 



Velvet Scoter. — A fine old male was shot at Hunstanton about 

 the 4th of January. Females and young birds were not uncommon, 

 in flocks of twelve or fourteen together. 



